Card holder



Patented Dec. 7, 1926.

pairs PALLIE E. HORTON, OF COVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

CARD HOLDER.

Application filed October 17, 1925. Serial No. 63,136.

T he device forming the subject matter' of strip is outwardly bowed, as at 7, between this application is a card holder, and the the foot 2 and the prongs il. l A handle t), invention aims to provide an article of the generally in the form of a ring, is mounted in sort mentioned which will be simple in conpivotally vin the eye 6. Any means 9, such c struction and yeasily manipulated to hold as screws, may be used for. attaching the and release a card, and to sustain the card strip 1 to a support 10, the screws or other on a support. fastening means passing through the foot 2.

It is within the province of the disclosure "When the device is mounted on the sup- 5H to improve generally and to enhance the port 10, the prongs 4 project baclwardly utility of devices of that type to which against the support, as shown in Figure the invention appertains. The free end of the strip l may be pulled lVith the above and other objects in view outwardly by means of the handle 8, and which will appear as the description pro a card or other object may be inserted beceeds, the invention resides in the combinatween the free end of the strip and the l5 tion and arrangement of parts `and in the support 10. IN hen the handle 8 is released,

details or construction hereinafter described the prongs 4 will retain the card in place .on

and claimed, it being understood that the support 10.

changes in the precise embodiment of the It will be understood that the prongs fl 6U invention herein disclosed, may he made may be of any desired length, as occasion 20 within the scope of what is claimed, without may demand.

departing from the spirit of the inven- What is claimed is tion. A card holder embodying a resilient strip In the drawings provided at one end witha -flattened foot, 65

Figure l shows in elevation, a device conand provided. at its opposite end with a 25 structed in accordance with the invention; notch which forms pointed holding prongs Figure 2 vis a section on the line 2 2 of at the outer longitudinal edges of the strip, Figure l; Figure 3 is a section on the line the last-mentioned end of the strip having 8 3 of Figure 1. a tongue that is located between the prongs, 70 The device forming the subject matter of the tongue being fashioned into a forwardly this application comprises a resilient strip extended eye located at the base of the l, made of metal, and provided at one cnd notch, a handle pivotally mounted in the with a flattened foot 2. The strip 1 is supeye, andY means vfor securing the foot to a plied at its opposite end with a notch 3 support, the prongs extending rearwardly forming pointed holding prongs 4 which to engage and hold a card against the supare rearwardly extended. The strip 1 is port, the prongs engaging the support, when supplied, at its last-specified end, with a the card is removed, thereby to space the tongue 5 located between the prongs t and handle from theI support and to permitthe spaced therefrom, the tongue projecting handle to be grasped readily. SH from the base of the notch 3. The tongue In testimony that I claim the foregoingv 40 5 is formed into a forwardly presented eye as my own, I have hereto aliired my signa.-

6. In order to enhance its resiliency, and ture. to provide room behind the strip 1, the PALLIE E. IIORTON. 

